Overview
- The Supreme Court’s First Panel convicted businessman Alcides Hahn on March 2, 2026, and set a 14-year sentence for helping fund travel linked to the January 8, 2023 attacks on government buildings in Brasília.
- Prosecutors said a R$500 Pix from Hahn helped pay a charter bus from Blumenau to Brasília, and two co-defendants sent R$1,000 and R$10,000, with one described as a local organizer; none of the three traveled on the bus.
- The panel found the trio guilty of five offenses that include violent abolition of the democratic state, coup d’état, qualified damage, harm to protected heritage, and criminal association.
- Penalties include 100 day-fines for each defendant, joint R$30 million in collective moral damages, entry of their names on the roll of the guilty, and payment of court costs.
- Relator Alexandre de Moraes applied a “multitudinous crimes” theory that holds organizers and financiers of mass illegal acts liable without tying them to specific vandalism, while defenses argue the case rests on a Pix receipt and a witness presumption, and note a March 20 appeal was pulled from the docket as new challenges proceed.